A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward

Metzker, Isaac, ed.

ISBN 10: 0805209808 / ISBN 13: 9780805209808

Published by Schocken Books, Garden City, New York, 1990

About this Item

A classic collection of letters and responses from the pages of the Jewish Daily Forward, one of New York's best-known Yiddish newspapers. The "Bintel Brief" was the letters to the editor section of the paper, and served as sort of a "Dear Abby" column for Jewish immigrants. The letters and responses selected by the editor provide a poignant and sometimes quite humorous look at the life of these immigrants in their early years in New York. Includes selections from a period of 60 years, from 1906 to 1966. Upper right corner of title page is thin because of paper loss when a sticker was apparently removed. 215 pages, 5 x 8 inches. Sales tax will be added to all California orders.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward
• Publisher: Schocken Books, Garden City, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805209808
• ISBN 13: 9780805209808
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • New York
  • Immigration/Migration
  • Judaica

About this title

Synopsis

For more than eighty years the Jewish Daily Forward's legendary advice column, "A Bintel Brief" ("a bundle of letters") dispensed shrewd, practical, and fair-minded advice to its readers. Created in 1906 to help bewildered Eastern European immigrants learn about their new country, the column also gave them a forum for seeking advice and support in the face of problems ranging from wrenching spiritual dilemmas to petty family squabbles to the sometimes hilarious predicaments that result when Old World meets New. Isaac Metzker's beloved selection of these letters and responses has become for today's readers a remarkable oral record not only of the varied problems of Jewish immigrant life in America but also of the catastrophic events of the first half of our century.

Foreword and Notes by Harry Golden

About the Author

ISAAC METZKER was a longtime editor of and contributor to the Jewish Daily Forward, the author of five novels in Yiddish, and the editor of a second volume of A Bintel Brief.